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Deadline: July 31, 2019 The UAE SDG Photography Award recognizes the immense power of images, to helping us raise awareness as a globally community reach the goals of a better world in unique way. The award was created to use a visual medium towards advancing awareness, and achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals […]
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European Youth Press
Deadline: August 1, 2019 The AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards, organized by the Kavli Foundation, recognises outstanding reporting for a general audience and honour individuals for coverage of the sciences, engineering and mathematics. The categories are large newspaper, small newspaper, magazine, audio, video spot news/feature reporting, video in-depth reporting, online and children’s science news. […]
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European Youth Press
Deadline: July 22, 2019 For more than 30 years, the Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship has introduced promising young(ish) Washington reporters to the city they have been assigned to cover. From September to June, this one-day-a-month fellowship will give print, online and broadcast journalists from top news organizations an intensive – and lively – […]
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European Youth Press
Deadline: July 15, 2019 Youth4Regions is the European Commission programme helping journalism students and young journalists to discover what the EU is doing in their region. What do we offer? Trainings on journalism and EU regional policy The chance to receive mentorship from established journalists from your country Working side by side with […]
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European Youth Press
Deadline: July 15, 2019 We are excited to announce the fifth edition of the Free Press Awards. The organisers aim to celebrate the work of the best journalists and media professionals. Free Press Unlimited wants people to have access to reliable information they need to develop and prosper. The FPU supports journalists worldwide to […]
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European Youth Press
Deadline: July 5, 2019 Ian Parry was a photojournalist who died while on assignment for The Sunday Times during the Romanian revolution in 1989. He was just 24 years of age. Aidan Sullivan, then picture editor, and Ian’s friends and family created the Ian Parry Scholarship in order to build something positive from such […]
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European Youth Press
Deadline: July 28, 2019 This year’s Global Youth Video Competition is divided into 3 categories: Cities and local action to combat climate change; Nature-based solutions for food and human health; Balancing use of land for people and ecosystems. Each Convention is responsible for one of the three categories. One winner will be selected from […]
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European Youth Press
by Summer Dosch
Leyla Mustafayeva is an Azerbaijani journalist and the wife of investigative journalist Afgan Mukhtarli, who was kidnapped in Georgia in May 2017 and later imprisoned in Azerbaijan.
Mustafayeva left Georgia along with her daughter Nuray after being followed by the same individual who was following her husband before his abduction. Today she lives in Germany and continues to campaign for the release of her husband.
When Mukhtarli fled to Georgia, Azerbaijani authorities were shutting down NGO’s and independent media outlets. In Georgia, he continued to openly criticise the Azerbaijani regime as a journalist and arranged protests to…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Interview by Frederic Krull
One week after the decisive victory of the opposition party CHP over the ruling government’s party AKP in the Istanbul mayoral elections on 23 June, the ECPMF’ journalists in residence Nasan Öscan and Murat Bay are speaking out about Turkey’s democratic challenge and whether we can expect a positive influence on the Turkish media landscape as well.
Prior to the re-run of the elections, we have seen smear campaigns, biased reporting over the candidates and misleading information, spread by pro-government media outlets. Yet Istanbul’s voters did not seem to be affected by such strategies. The obviously biased…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
The consultation on the Online Harms White Paper, published jointly by the UK government’s Department for Digital, Media, Culture and Sport (DCMS) and the Home Office, closes on July 1. It calls for a new system of regulation for tech companies with the goal of preventing online harm. Julia Davidson and Sonia Livingstone were part of a group commissioned by DCMS to […]
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Media Policy Project